Henry Louis Gates Quotes
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
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I hate being too pretty.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
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The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.
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You finish a job and it's very emotional because you're working crazy long hours, and your work family is like a real family.
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Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.
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I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
